Figure 1

Digital image of a 351 mm total length blackbelly rosefish and a blackbelly rosefish otolith section from a 473 mm total length individual estimated to be 90 y by the primary reader. Yellow point denotes the otolith primordium. White points denote every 10th opaque zone, with the 20th through 90th opaque zones denoted in the inset. Red lines outline the approximate area targeted when milling the otolith core.